Girls for Sale: Kanyasulkam: A Play from Colonial India

by Gurajada Venkata Apparao and Velcheru Narayana Rao

Book Overview

First staged in 1892, the South Indian play Girls for Sale (Kanyasulkam) is considered the greatest modern work of Telugu literature and the first major drama written in an Indian language that critiqued British colonialism's effects on Indian society. Filled with humor, biting social commentary, parody, and masquerade, the plot revolves around a clever courtesan, a young widow, and a very old man who wants to buy as his wife a very young girl...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253219132
• ISBN13: 9780253219138
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher